Children's toy system with enhanced flexibility member
AssigneeNsi International, Inc.
InventorFrank J. LANDI, JR.
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Abstract
An enhanced children's toy system has an inner skeleton member with enhanced flexibility, an outer molded body assembled therewith and removably engageable with a toy vehicle member for play use. The inner skeleton member includes a series of displaceable flexible members joined by a series of substantially rigid or semi-rigid members allowing, at each interface, the enhanced flexibility member to bend and to be placed during play into contortions having degrees of motion not possible with a convention toy member with pivot joints. The enhanced flexibility member is releasably mountable to a toy vehicle via mounts during a play use.
Claims20
An enhanced flexibility children's toy, comprising a figurine comprising:
- an inner skeleton comprising a plurality of rigid members interconnected by a plurality of flexible members;
- an outer molded body carried on the inner skeleton;
- molded clothing carried on the outer molded body;
- wherein the inner skeleton comprises a plurality of joint-interfaces between the rigid members and respective flexible members;
- wherein each joint-interface selectively retains bent-to-position orientations between a selected rigid member and an adjoining flexible member comprising at least 180-degrees of rotational motion of the adjoining flexible member about an elongated axis of the selected rigid member, along with relative bending of the adjoining flexible member transverse to the elongated axis of the selected rigid member.
An enhanced flexibility children's toy, comprising:
- a figurine comprising:
- an inner skeleton comprising a plurality of rigid members interconnected by a plurality of flexible members,
- an outer molded body carried on the inner skeleton,
- molded clothing carried on the outer molded body,
- wherein the inner skeleton comprises a plurality of joint-interfaces between the rigid members and respective flexible members,
- wherein each joint-interface selectively retains bent-to-position orientations between a selected rigid member and an adjoining flexible member comprising at least 180-degrees of rotational motion of the adjoining flexible member about an elongated axis of the selected rigid member, along with relative bending of the adjoining flexible member transverse to the elongated axis of the selected rigid member;
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- a toy vehicle releasably supporting the figurine.
A children's toy system, comprising:
- an enhanced flexibility member further comprising an inner skeleton member and an outer molded body member;
- said inner skeleton member further comprises a plurality of flexible displacement members interspaced at intersections with respective rigid members in a skeleton arrangement;
- said skeleton member provides a complete degree of freedom of rotation of each displacement member proximate each intersection with said respective rigid member;
- at least one toy vehicle having a support surface thereon for operably supporting said enhanced flexibility member during a combined play use;
- at least one of said support surface and said inner skeleton member including means for securing a releasable use fit therebetween during said use to prevent unintentional disengagement;
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- said flexible displacement members are ones of a group of wire, coated wire, metal wire, plastic coated wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.